JISHA: Situation of Occupational Diseases in Japan (1960-2022)

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Situation of Occupational Diseases in Japan (1960-2022)

	Manufacturing						Mining	Construction	Transportation	Cargo	Others	Total
	Sub-total of Manufacturing	Fiber	Chemical	Sand and stone	Metal	Machine	Mining	Construction	Transportation	Cargo	Others	Total
1960	9,498	401	1,332	454	3,513	2,249	3,538	4,951	1,734	1,900		21,621
1965	8,434	407	876	528	2,464	2,245	2,653	4,048	1,407	781	1,785	19,108
1970	13,408	579	1,205	1,073	4,122	2,789	2,034	5,735	4,098	1,758	3,763	30,796
1975	10,809	413	938	951	3,025	2,409	1,416	4,618	2,975	1,166	3,969	24,953
1980	7,020	263	493	947	1,811	1,473	1,394	3,965	2,518	600	3,147	18,644
1985	5,298	162	325	600	881	1,110	974	2,679	1,835	433	3,369	14,588
1989	4,340	176	273	491	725	880	615	2,162	1,998	259	3,090	12,464
1990	3,824	163	243	425	624	785	583	2,078	1,708	233	2,989	11,415
1991	3,927	156	290	435	553	872	572	1,983	1,523	354	3,592	11,951
1992	3,587	134	289	383	564	734	507	1,982	1,533	217	3,016	10,842
1993	3,154	114	268	340	451	572	462	1,661	1,400	221	2,732	9,630
1994	3,123	106	282	344	439	560	539	1,846	1,329	159	2,919	9,915
1995	2,844	113	235	320	418	543	482	1,843	1,157	131	2,773	9,230
1996	2,631	92	189	322	427	490	572	1,834	1,187	138	2,888	9,250
1997	2,517	72	246	306	388	498	543	1,653	1,143	86	2,615	8,557
1998	2,457	87	221	306	490	470	468	1,364	1,100	87	3,098	8,574
1999	2,136	52	162	284	465	418	490	1,230	963	82	2,916	7,817
2000	2,208	71	184	272	489	445	480	1,216	971	107	3,101	8,083
2001	2,054	50	176	254	428	405	386	1,157	1,062	85	3,240	7,984
2002	1,853	52	155	245	377	364	359	1,055	998	73	3,164	7,502
2003	1,965	39	166	231	416	410	356	1,093	969	99	3,573	8,055
2004	1,853	36	189	209	410	405	317	971	915	93	3,460	7,609
2005	2,032	37	185	247	439	469	231	1,020	991	74	3,878	8,226
2006	2,152	39	197	214	443	549	191	1,057	917	74	3,978	8,369
2007	2,160	28	216	195	413	596	168	974	995	97	4,290	8,684
2008	1,965	19	169	175	396	508	175	930	1,097	93	4,614	8,874
2009	1,485	30	145	141	280	322	141	718	927	82	4,138	7,491
2010	1,745	19	178	151	309	434	138	881	956	88	4,303	8,111
2011	1,624	22	167	133	293	408	117	800	922	87	4,229	7,779
2012	1,479	29	125	128	244	358	107	745	912	104	4,396	7,743
2013	1,389	29	125	105	277	301	97	733	887	103	4,101	7,310
2014	1,459	27	161	112	262	311	61	705	860	107	4,223	7,415
2015	1,411	24	125	89	261	324	63	641	1,007		4,246	7,368
2016*1	1,421	18	134	83	272	336	54	614	1,059		4,192	7,340
2017	1,464	24	154	85	245	349	42	665	1,061		4,510	7,844
2018	1,631	20	169	86	288	358	32	697	1,297		5,027	8,684
2019	1,569	24	137	86	296	377	39	605	1,169		4,928	8,310
2020*2	1,853	105	173	96	190	430	35	883	1,438		10,829	15,038
2021*3	3,672	58	364	108	525	908	25	1,770	1,870		20,734	28,071
2022*4	5,732	177	421	191	800	1,539	35	3,477	3,100		153,151	165,495

Sources：Reports of Occupational diseases, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/stf/newpage_34778.html

Notes (*):

The table counts occupational diseases in 4 days absence or more.
Diseases rate per 1000 workers was not described in this table.
Numbers of workers applied by Labour Standard Law until 2014 are based on numbers of workers in Economic Census.
Numbers of workers applied by Labour Standard Law from 2015 are based on numbers of employees in Labour Force Survey.
*1 Announced numbers of 2016 are changed.
*2 Data include 6,041 COVID-19 patients.
*3 Data include 19,332 COVID-19 patients.
*4 Data include 155,989 COVID-19 patients.

Original Data writhen in Japanese :
https://www.mhlw.go.jp/content/11300000/001136586.xls Open in the new tab
Translated excel data including diseases rate per 1000 workers:
https://www.jisha.or.jp/english/statistics/pdf/occupational_diseases_(1960-2022).xls
Translated by JISHA from Web site of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, Japan

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